All the stories tagged with nao
Nao robot climbs a staircase autonomously
07/24/2012, Our society seems to be making that shift to the world of robots more and more, but robots are still very much underdeveloped compared to us humans. How do you tell a robot to hold an egg with its fingers [...]
NAO robot charges itself with the NEST
09/20/2011, While most people can rest assured that a robot with no power is as useful as a pile of scrap metal, it looks like plans of trying to outwait a killer robot into powering down might not be possible in [...]
NAO robot avoids obstacles autonomously
05/16/2011, The NAO robot that we’ve seen in the past (having received a sexier body, in addition to playing nice with Kinect) is back in the limelight – thanks to researchers at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg’s Humanoid Robots Lab. The culmination of [...]
Aldebaran robotics wants Nao to be more helpful in disastrous situations
03/22/2011, Japan is the country with the highest number of robots, especially those commercially released ones that are meant to make life a whole lot more convenient and less lonely. Well, the Nao robot has been demonstrated in the past to [...]
Nao robot offers Kinect control
03/07/2011, Those who have a penchant for the world of robotics will be pleased to know that the Nao robot (from the lovely French, where you can tell by its aesthetics) might be in its prototype stage, but that doesn’t mean [...]
Ethical robots coming your way
01/19/2011, When it comes to the subject of ethics in robots, this is a pretty touching subject simply because you can hardly reduce human ethics to logical rules. Of course, there is this rather small problem of robots liking logical rules [...]
Nao robot receives a much sexier body
12/22/2010, Aldebaran Robotics’ latest version of their Nao robot made an impact at the Humanoids 2010 conference in Atlanta, where Nao’s body has been re-engineered to look a whole lot more attractive and robust. It features longer curved arms that just [...]
